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August 17 2012

3:48 PM

Interview: Jimmy Walker

Following a second-round 62, Jimmy Walker reflects on his
play in the 2012 Wyndham Championship with Mark Immelman from
SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio.

By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- When the FedExCup Playoffs are over in
September, Jimmy Walker will likely have surgery for the torn
meniscus in his left knee.

For now, though, that cortisone shot Walker had in June has kept
the swelling down and the pain at bay. And he's certainly making
the most of things -- firing a 62 on Friday that propelled him to
the top of the leaderboard at the Wyndham Championship.

Walker went out Friday with the mindset of hitting fairways and
greens at Sedgefield -- and that's exactly what he did. The Texan
hit nine fairways and 15 greens for the second straight day. The
difference was that the putts started falling with 26 Friday to 30
in the first round.

"I hit a lot of 5-woods off tees," Walker said. "Kind of boring.
I'm playing with J.B. (Holmes) and he's bombing the driver
everywhere. I'm just kind of bunting the 5-wood around and hitting
good approach shots, that kind of stuff. It was pretty boring
looking golf.

"Not a lot of drivers, not a lot of 3-woods. Lot of 5-woods
and some irons. Just kind of placement, placement around the golf
course, relying on hitting good approach shots and making a couple
putts."

Walker has yet to make a bogey at Sedgefield -- the only player
in the field who can claim that distinction. He made birdies in
bunches on Friday, too, twice getting two in a row and finishing
with three straight, two-putting the 15th from 42 feet and adding
birdie putts of 7 and 6 feet on the next two holes.

Needless to say, Walker doesn't plan any changes over the
weekend.

"There's different golf courses where you can just send it all
over the place and go chase it but around here you want to stay in
the fairway, especially with the rough as deep as it is," he
said.

Walker said he tore the meniscus at the HP Byron Nelson
Championship earlier this year. The pain continued for the better
part of a month, so intense at times that he couldn't bend down to
read putts the way he normally did.

The doctors told Walker he'll only miss 10 days to two weeks
once he has the procedure and he'll be ready for some Fall Series
events. In the meantime, the cortisone shot has done the trick and
he's ready to see if he can pick up his first PGA TOUR win this
weekend.

"I got that fixed and started feeling pretty good about
everything again,” Walker said. “All the stuff I had
been working on is starting to payoff."